✔️✔️Her 27-year-old husband died on March 9 in an air battle over Zhytomyr Oblast, receiving an enemy airstrike on himself
✔️The widow of the Ukrainian pilot Kateryna Lysenko appealed to the president with a proposal to grant the title of Hero of Ukraine to her deceased husband Yevhen Lysenko.
✔️ This is reported by Suspilne.
✔️"How people reacted in Zhytomyr Oblast when his plane was shot down. They said: he was alone, and there were many of them. It was an unequal battle. It was clear that the chances are one in a million," says Kateryna Lysenko.
✔️People from Zhytomyr Region reported that a plane broke down in the sky, debris scattered all over the field. She was then called and told that they would ask the farmers not to start planting in order to find her husband's belongings.
✔️Seven months after her husband's death, the woman first returned to the apartment in Lutsk, where she lived with her husband and children for the past two years. He says that this time was the most stable in their lives.
✔️ Kateryna and Yevhen met when they were still students. She is from Poltava region, she studied in Kropyvnytskyi on a civil aviation course. She planned to become a flight attendant. He is from Cherkasy region, he studied in Kharkiv, he dreamed of becoming a pilot since he was in junior high school. In the third year, Yevhen chose fighter aviation and the MIG-29.
✔️The family lived in many cities. Until 2014, Yevhen Lysenko served in the Crimean unit, in the 204th tactical aviation brigade, which was based in Belbek. After the occupation of the peninsula, the brigade was redeployed to Mykolaiv. Even then he was a major, a squadron commander and an instructor.
✔️"I constantly told him: "Zhen, you do everything so quickly, all the admissions, all these medals. You are in such a hurry to live, well, don't sleep, come on, take it easy somehow," recalls Kateryna Lysenko.
✔️The woman last saw Yevgeny on February 24. At three o'clock in the morning, he blew himself up due to the war alarm.
✔️"I hugged him, kissed him. He left, I close the door behind him: you call me! - Yes, yes, Katyush. He got out, got into the car and always looks out the window, even when I'm not looking... This time he didn't look," says Kateryna Lysenko.
✔️Yugen has been in touch all the time since February 24. Called very often, even if only for a few minutes. The last time he wrote on March 9: "don't worry, I love you," says the widow.
✔️"The commander called me and said that Zhenya was not in touch. I sat and cried, and his friends approached me from behind. With such faces ..., I immediately understood everything. My life is destroyed," says Kateryna Lysenko.
✔️One-year-old Yehor and three-year-old Lisa do not yet know that their father died heroically. "My daughter just sees planes and helicopters and says let's call dad, he will come soon. She often remembers him, misses him," says Kateryna.
✔️As of October 11, the petition to award Yevgeny Lysenko the title of Hero of Ukraine received more than seven and a half thousand votes out of the required 25 thousand. The collection of signatures will continue until December 21.
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Olena Kovalchuk